people's artist of belarus leonid dmitrievich shimelev is a legendary figure for belarusian and soviete in collections national art museum of the republic of belarus, funds of the belarusian union of artists. history of the city of minsk, many regional and district museums of belarus, the state tretyakov gallery in moscow, funds of the ministry of culture of the russian federation, as well as in private collections around the world. leonid dmitrievich, like no one else, was able to create a sophisticated , yet eric poem about human life in all its complexity. his works intertwine modernity and the history of the country, love, sadness, hope, pain of war and joy. victory. the beauty of the earth and nostalgic memories of youth. still lifes, portraits, landscapes, the artist worked in all genres of easel painting and created many graphic works. being a participant in the great patriotic war, he was wounded in the battle for mozyr, but even the war had no power over his dream of becoming an artist. lack of recognition, criticism, poverty tested his strength, and love became the guiding st

to meet wonderful, talented teachers, this is very important. this is the school, starting with shimelevthen the school of enormous development, at the vashchenko institute, stremashashonok, anikeichik, baronovsky, they provided this fundamental, strong base, on the basis of all this, well, my vision was built, so for me it all gave a huge spatial path that i will find in life, but i... thank you very much again for invitation , remembering that past interview, i actually return to it often, and over the next 3 years a lot of interesting things happened in the harp life of belarus, which i am incredibly happy about and just a month later, then the international harp festival took place art of belarus and russia, we did a joint project, and more than 50 harpists came from moscow, st. petersburg, yekaterinburg, and they were incredibly happy to visit minsk to perform solo works, as well as with the orchestra of the state academic symphony orchestra conducted by alexander mikhailovich anesimov, so we... we were given the opportunity to play in our best halls, these are the chamber hall of l